Peach Taffy
#f3b68e
An orange that is muted. It is very light — it works as a page background, not as text.
Hex
#f3b68e
RGB
243, 182, 142
OKLCh
82.3% 0.089 54.4°
CIELAB (D50)
79.1, 19.2, 29.5
What is true of this colour, and of no other
- 16 other named colours sit within ΔE00 2 of it — this part of the space is crowded, and the names here are finer distinctions than most people make.
- It uses 78% of the chroma sRGB can show at this lightness and hue.
- As text on white it measures APCA Lc 32.3; on black, Lc -70.4. The sign is the polarity, which the WCAG ratio discards.
- Built into an eleven-step scale, 10 of the 10 adjacent pairs stay ΔE00 2 apart — see the ramp.
- protanopia and deuteranopia and tritanopia shift it by ΔE00 20.1 and 20.9 and 29.3 — no red cone.
Text on this colour
White text
1.77:1 — fails AA
Black text
11.89:1 — passes AA
Black text is the better of the two at11.89:1. That is enough for body text.
As text on white, it needs to change
#a26a44 is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on white, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved.
The same colour, with one cone missing
As you see it
#f3b68e
protanopia
#bebe8e · ΔE00 20.1
deuteranopia
#caca8c · ΔE00 20.9
tritanopia
#d7d700 · ΔE00 29.3
The twelve nearest named colours
Ranked by CIEDE2000 — perceptual distance, not hex arithmetic. The closest isNovember Leaf at ΔE00 0.61: below 1.0 — an ordinary observer cannot tell these apart, even side by side. What the numbers mean.
- November LeafΔE00 0.61 · #f1b690
- Caramel CreamΔE00 0.892 · #f4b58f
- Chilli DipΔE00 1.155 · #f0b692
- Peach NirvanaΔE00 1.249 · #edb48f
- Red PerfumeΔE00 1.46 · #f6b894
- Copper CloudΔE00 1.482 · #f4bb92
- Mild OrangeΔE00 1.525 · #f3bb93
- Melón MelosoΔE00 1.614 · #f2b88c
- TulleΔE00 1.707 · #f1ba91
- Autumn MistΔE00 1.733 · #f7b486
- Beach SandΔE00 1.735 · #fbb88b
- Peach ParfaitΔE00 1.749 · #f6b895
12 of these have no page of their own: pages exist for the 4,961 colours the dataset marks as good names.